As a Whole

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.” ― Plato

benefits to kissing

"A kiss seals two souls for a moment in time.” ~Levende Waters

 Top 10 Reasons To Kiss List:
Lowers blood pressure
Decreases cortisol stress hormone
Increases seratonin
Reduces pain
Increases oxytocin
Improves immunity
Fights off cavities
Increases dopamine
Improves mood Lowers anxiety

There are plenty more benefits to kissing...but I am guessing that you already have your favorite reasons. What’s my favorite kissing moment, you ask? When you can feel your partner smiling as you kiss each other. Kissing makes us smile more!

Seize It

"There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it."~ Max Lucado

with a deeper instinct

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." ~~Anais Nin

concentrate

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.~ Buddha

Love is Light

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.~~ Lord Byron

If I Should Think of Love...

If I should think of love I'd think of you.
If I should think of Love
I'd think of you, your arms uplifted,
Tying your hair in plaits above.

The lyre shape of your arms and shoulders,
The soft curve of your winding head.
No melody is sweeter, nor could Orpheus
So have bewitched. I think of this.

And all my universe becomes perfection.
But were you in my arms, dear love,
The happiness would take my breath away.

No thought could match that ecstasy,
 No song encompass it, no other worlds.
 If I should think of love, I'd think of you.

_ Shakespeare
 Happy Birthday William Shakespeare

Capable of Uniting

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.~~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Don't Resist

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.~~ Lao Tzu

Thursday Thought~ resting unopened

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.~~ David Quaimen

worth fighting for

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be … It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." — Erica Jong

Our Purpose

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.~~ Hermann Hesse

without limit

"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh."~~ Rumi

Affection

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ~~C. S. Lewis

wonder and magic

"A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers." - Leo Buscaglia

This Extraordinary Thing

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Connections

"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together." ~Barbara de Angelis

Formidable Force

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could." Barbara de Angelis

A Lovely Trick

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~Ingrid Bergman

worth achieving

"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving."~~ Ayn Rand